Have you built and test fired this configuration?Thermal issues fixed - thanks to suggestions from AT
Have you built and test fired this configuration?Thermal issues fixed - thanks to suggestions from AT
If you use poured/loose dry black powder as you mentioned, you have probably created on hell-of a firecracker... BTW, what rocket magazine was that?I've never tried this and it doesn't sound perfectly safe, but I read in a rocket magazine that some people fill the nozzles of black powder booster motors (maybe C6-0s?) with epoxy. Then they insert them into a cluster rocket with the glued nozzles facing up and light the other end for thrustless smoke...
What I want is a thicker, longer smoke trail in LPR. The experiments would be some fun on their own, so I shouldn't say totally worthless. Gaining L2 is something I'm theoretically working on, but judging by my own behavior over the last several years it doesn't seem to be a high priority. Getting the L2 and then only using these little smoke generators in little rockets at reasearch launches seems not worth it. What I'd like to do is develop and test them, then knock out a dozen at a time and use them at my local club launches, which is off the table if I can't get them certified.I guess I don’t understand. This is exactly why some people do research. Why is there no point?
I agree that method doesn't sound like a good idea. I was thinking of fuel rich R-candy for two reasons. First, it's not BP. Second, I read a long time ago in Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book a smoke bomb recipe with the same primary ingredients as R-candy but in a very fuel rich ratio. I've tried that formula, but without processing it properly, and it worked quite well all the same.If you use poured/loose dry black powder as you mentioned, you have probably created on hell-of a firecracker... BTW, what rocket magazine was that?
heck, just but one of these and electrically ignite with as 2nd launcher....What I want is a thicker, longer smoke trail in LPR. The experiments would be some fun on their own, so I shouldn't say totally worthless. Gaining L2 is something I'm theoretically working on, but judging by my own behavior over the last several years it doesn't seem to be a high priority. Getting the L2 and then only using these little smoke generators in little rockets at reasearch launches seems not worth it. What I'd like to do is develop and test them, then knock out a dozen at a time and use them at my local club launches, which is off the table if I can't get them certified.
Good to know, but it doesn't help me fly them at non-research launches, unless someone knows where I can buy them certified.Neither ejection charges nor very low thrust smoky motors are considered payloads.
As part of Tripoli research you can make smoke grains to place in the forward bulkhead.
No, you cannot.You can?
A shame that this isn't practical. I was interested when I saw the thread title because I'd like to fly a thrustless Nil0-7, or -10, or some such. It's all smoke. Probably 18 × 70 mm, slow burning fuel rich R-candy, and no nozzle. But I'd need to be L2 certified, and limited to Tripoli research launches.
I haven't really developed it, because there doesn't seem to be any point.
Sorry, but this makes me laugh.. have you seen my thread?I have this obsession with 29mm motors and 38mm airframes. Except for an Estes Bull Pup and a larger Bull Puppy, all my birds are scratch built 38mm airframes - I like to see how much I can jam in to a small space.
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